Elinore Pruitt Stewart

After losing her husband, Elinore Pruitt washed clothes to support herself and her daughter. In 1909, she took a job working for a rancher in Wyoming. The letters she wrote to her former employer over several years are packed with stories and fascinating observations about her new life....

Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) was a homesteader in Wyoming and a memoirist who, between 1909 and 1914, wrote a series of engaging letters describing her life. The letters, which are short stories, reveal an adventurous and resourceful personality.....

Letters of a Woman Homesteader is a frontier classic by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, a widowed young mother who accepted an offer to assist with a ranch in Wyoming.....

Letters of a Woman Homesteader presents an outstanding first-person account of life on the American frontier....

These lively, captivating letters are filled with sentiment and the excitement of pioneer life. Peopled with fascinating characters, they reveal the beauty....